Culex scimitar Branch & Seabrook, 1959

NEOTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: Scimitar (English); reference to shape of gonostylus

Type locality: Hog Island, Bahama Islands

Type depository: U S. National Museum, Washington, D.C., United States (USNM)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

None

 

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Culex scimitar DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Bahamas, Cuba.

Distribution

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Branch & Seabrook 1959: 217 (M*, F)

Bram 1967a: 98 (M*, F, L)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Bram, R.A. (1967a). Classification of Culex subgenus Culex in the New World (Diptera: Culicidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 120(3557), 1–122.

Branch, N., & Seabrook, E.L. (1959). Culex (Culex) scimitar, a new species of mosquito from the Bahama Islands (Diptera: Culicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 61(5), 216–218.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Culex scimitar species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/mosquitoes/vectorspecies/cx_scimitar, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].